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Saturday, December 15, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Obama & Romney: Bad Schools Cause Gun Violence

Jersey Jazzman: Obama & Romney: Bad Schools Cause Gun Violence:


Obama & Romney: Bad Schools Cause Gun Violence

Via digby (who else?), here is what the two major party candidates in the last presidential election said we should do about gun violence (all emphases mine):
CROWLEY: Governor Romney, the question is about assault weapons, AK-47s.

ROMNEY: Yeah, I'm not in favor of new pieces of legislation on — on guns and taking guns away or making certain guns illegal. We, of course, don't want to have automatic weapons, and that's already illegal in this country to have automatic weapons. What I believe is we have to do, as the president mentioned towards the end of his remarks there, which is to make enormous efforts to enforce the gun laws that we have, and to change the culture of violence that we have.

And you ask how — how are we going to do that? And there are a number of things.He mentioned good schools. I totally agree. We were able to drive our schools to be number one in the nation in my state. And I believe if we do a